if this is like splunk that doesn't make me cry unicorn blood tears every time an invoice arrives then i'm all in. unfortunately it doesn't look like it and honestly i'm not sure what it is. 'prometheus for logs' doesn't quite explain it.
We're soon coming out with a blog post explaining the motivations and architecture in detail. But yes, the pricing is one of the motivations to build this, and as logs will be stored in S3 or an object store, the cost will several orders of magnitudes less.
[1] https://speakerdeck.com/davkal/on-the-path-to-full-observabi...